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This page details statistics of the European Cup and Champions League. Unless notified these statistics concern all seasons since inception of the European Cup in the 1955–56 season, including qualifying rounds of the UEFA Champions League as per "Competition facts";[1] all goals scored before league phase(s) count as "qualifying goals".

A total of 22 clubs have won the tournament since it's 1955 inception, with Real Madrid being the only team to win it 10 times, including the first five. Only two other clubs have reached 10 finals; AC Milan and Bayern Munich. A total of 12 clubs have won the tournament multiple times; the three aforementioned clubs, along with Liverpool, Ajax, Barcelona, Internazionale, Manchester United, Benfica, Nottingham Forest, Juventus, and Porto. A total of 17 clubs have reached the final without ever managing to win the tournament.

Clubs from 10 different countries have provided tournament winners. Spanish clubs have been the most successful, winning a total of 14. Italy and England are joint-second with 12, while the other multiple-time winners are Germany with 7, Netherlands with 6, and Portugal with 4. The only other countries to provide a tournament winner are Scotland, Romania, Yugoslavia, and France. Greece, Belgium and Sweden have all provided losing finalists.

Clubs from a total of 35 European cities have participated in the tournament final, while clubs from 21 cities have provided winners, with Madrid and Milan each winning 10; though both AC Milan and Internazionale have helped Milan be successful, only Real Madrid have won it for Madrid, with Atletico managing to lose two finals.

Although not an officially recognized achievement, seven clubs have achieved the distinction of winning the Champions League or European Cup, their domestic championship, and their primary domestic cup competition in the same season, known colloquially as "the treble":

In addition to this treble, several of these clubs went on to win further cups. However, most of these cups were technically won the following year following the conclusion of regular domestic or international leagues the year before. Also, several domestic cups may not have been extant at the time that equivalent cups were won by clubs of other nations, and in some cases they remain so. Furthermore, there is much variance in the regard with which several cups are taken both over time and between nations. Regardless, the following clubs all won competitions further to the treble mentioned above:

Celtic also won their secondary domestic cup competition, the Scottish League Cup, in the 1966–67 season concurrently with the treble of cups mentioned previously (sometimes colloquially referred to as a part of "the quadruple"), thus making their achievement unique in this respect to every other club.

In 2002–03, Milan and Internazionale met in the semi-final. Sharing the same stadium (Giuseppe Meazza), they played 0–0 in the first tie and 1–1 in the second. However, Milan were the designated away side in the latter, and so became the only team to win on "away" goals without having scored a goal away from their own stadium. They later went on to win the final against Juventus.

Milan is also the only team to have advanced on the away goals rule after extra time. In the semi-final against Bayern Munich in 1989–90, Milan won 1–0 at home and was 0–1 down after 90 minutes in the second leg. Both teams scored one goal each in the extra time, giving Milan the victory on away goals. They later went on to win the final against Benfica.

Barcelona and Bayern Munich are the only teams to have been involved in two penalty shootouts in the same season. In 1985–86, Barcelona beat IFK Göteborg in the semi-final, but lost to Steaua Bucharest in the final. In 2011–12, Bayern Munich beat Real Madrid in the semi-final but lost to Chelsea in the final.

Extra time

16 finals have gone to extra time. One was replayed, ten went to penalty shootout, while the remaining five were decided after 120 minutes:

Nottingham Forest is the only club to have won the European Cup more times (twice) than they have won their domestic league (once). Forest won the English League in 1978 before winning the European Cup in 1979 and defending it in 1980. Nottingham Forest are also the only previous winners of the European Cup to be later relegated to the third tier of their national league (in 2005).

The competition format was changed in 1997–98 to allow teams that were not champions of their domestic league to compete in the competition. Since then there have been European Champions who had not been domestic champions. Notable instances include the following

Liverpool's 2005 triumph came 15 years after their previous domestic league title (1990). That was the longest time any Champions League winner had gone since previously winning their league. Prior to this, the longest time period for any winner was Milan, whose victory in 2003 had come four years since their last Serie A win.

Bayer Leverkusen (in 2002) is the only club to play in the final having never won their domestic league.

Newcastle United in 2002–03 is the only team to have progressed past the group stage after losing their first three games.[10] In their last game against Feyenoord, Craig Bellamy's injury time (90+1) goal secured the 3–2 victory and a place in the second group stage.

Only nine teams have progressed past the group stage after losing their first two games. Only Galatasaray managed to advance past the Round of 16 in the tournament, however.

In 1994–95, defending champions Milan started the group stage with a loss and a win, but were deducted two points for crowd trouble against Casino Salzburg on matchday two. With 0 points after two games, they still managed to advance from the group and later to the final, where they lost to Ajax.

Arsenal hold the record for the most consecutive clean sheets with ten in 2005–06. They went without conceding a goal for 995 minutes between September 2005 and May 2006.[12] The run started after Markus Rosenberg's goal for Ajax after 71 minutes on matchday two of the group stage, continued with four group stage games and six games in the knockout rounds, and ended with Samuel Eto'o's goal for Barcelona after 76 minutes in the final. The 995 minutes were split between two goalkeepers, Jens Lehmann with 648 and Manuel Almunia with 347 minutes.

Manchester United hold the record for the longest run without conceding from the start of a campaign, with 481 minutes in 2010–11. The run ended with Pablo Hernández's goal for Valencia after 32 minutes on matchday six of the group stage.

Manchester United in 2010–11 is the only team to play six away games in a single Champions League season without conceding a goal

A total of 58 tournaments have been played, 37 in the European Cup era (1955–56 to 1991–92) and 21 in the Champions League era (1992–93 to 2012–13). 13 of the 57 attempts to defend the trophy (22.8%) have been successful, split between 8 teams. These are:

Benfica twice won the competition (1961 and 1962) with a team consisting entirely of Portuguese players, although some of them had been born in Portuguese African colonies, then Overseas Provinces of Portugal but now independent nations.

Celtic won the competition in 1967 with their entire squad born within a 30-mile radius of Celtic Park, their home ground.

The city of Milan, Italy, is the only one that has been represented by two different teams who have won the tournament: Internazionale and Milan. The two clubs have won ten cups in total. Therefore Milan is the most successful city in the history of the tournament, sharing this feat with Madrid, Spain, after Real Madrid won its tenth cup in 2014.

Apart from Milan, three cities have been represented by more than one team in the final:

Madrid, Spain, has been represented by two clubs in 14 finals, with ten wins (1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1966, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2014) and three losses (1962, 1964, 1981) for Real Madrid, and two losses for Atlético Madrid in 1974 and 2014.

The 2002–03 semi-final between Milan and Internazionale was the first time both games of a two-legged tie were played in the same stadium (San Siro). The teams share the stadium as their home venue. Milan won by the "away goals" rule. The teams also played each other in the same stadium in the 2004–05 quarter-final.

In the history of the Champions League, the following clubs have lost all 6 group stage matches:

Košice (1997–98) ended the group stage losing all 6 matches with a goal difference of –11. They conceded 13 goals, scoring only twice.

Fenerbahçe (2001–02) lost all 6 group stage matches with a goal difference of –9. They conceded 12 goals and scored only 3.

Spartak Moscow (2002–03) have the second worst goal difference in a Champions League group stage with –17. They lost all 6 matches, conceding 18 goals and scoring just once.

Bayer Leverkusen (2002–03, second group stage) lost all 6 matches, scoring 5 and conceding 15. This was the only time that a club lost all matches in the second group stage. It was also the first time that two clubs lost six group stage matches in the same season.

Anderlecht (2004–05) lost all 6 of their group stage matches. They conceded 17 goals and scored just 4, with a goal difference of –13.

Rapid Vienna (2005–06) ended the group stage losing all 6 games. They conceded 15 goals and scored only 3, with a goal difference of –12.

Levski Sofia (2006–07) finished their only appearance in the group stage conceding 17 goals and scoring just one, ending with a goal difference of –16.

Dynamo Kyiv (2007–08) ended the group stage also losing all 6 games. They conceded 19 goals, scoring only 4, ending with a goal difference of –15.

Maccabi Haifa (2009–10) is the only club to have lost all their group stage matches without scoring a goal. They did this finishing only their second appearance in the competition with 0 points after losing to Bayern Munich 3–0 in the first group game and then losing 5 consecutive games 1–0, ending the group stage with a goal difference of –8. In their first Champions League appearance in 2002–03, the team scored 12 goals. Deportivo La Coruña is the only other club that scored no goals in the group stage (in 2004–05), but they collected 2 points by twice drawing 0–0.

Debrecen (2009–10) finished the group stage with 0 points and a goal difference of –14. They conceded 19 goals, scoring just 5.

Partizan Belgrade (2010–11) lost all six group stage matches. They conceded 13 goals while scoring only 2, finishing with a goal difference of –11.

MŠK Žilina (2010–11) also finished the group stage with 0 points and a goal difference of –16, scoring 3 and conceding 19. This was the second consecutive season that two different clubs had lost all six group stage matches.

Dinamo Zagreb (2011–12) lost all six group stage matches, setting new records for worst goal difference (–19) and most goals conceded (22), scoring 3.

Oțelul Galați (2011–12) as well finished with 0 points and goal difference of –8, scoring 3 and conceding 11. That became the first season in which three separate teams had lost all six group stage matches, and a third consecutive season in which at least two teams finished with 0 points.

Real Madrid hold the record of the most consecutive seasons in advancing past the group stage with 18 from 1997–98 to 2014–15. The first seven seasons (1997–98 to 2003–04) they qualified for at least the quarterfinal each year, winning the tournament three times. After this followed six consecutive seasons (2004–05 to 2009–10) losing the first round (round of 16) after the group stage.

In 2012–13, Chelsea became the first title holder not to qualify from the following year's group stage.

Monaco scored the fewest goals (4) to earn 11 points in the group stage in 2014–15. Villareal won a group with the fewest goals scored (3) in 2005–06 resulting in 2 wins.

Ajax lost to Lyon on overall goal difference in 2011–12, having both head-to-head games end in a 0–0 draw. Lyon won their last group game against Dinamo Zagreb with 7–1 (after being 0-1 down at half time) while Ajax lost 0–3 against Real Madrid (in which two goals from Ajax were wrongfully cancelled). The aggregate goal difference in both games would have to be at least 7 goals for Lyon to advance, and in fact it was 9.

Real Madrid hold the record of consecutive goalscoring in the Champions League matches. They have scored at least one goal in 34 consecutive games. The run started with a 1–1 draw against Barcelona in the second leg of the semi-final of the 2010–11 season. This continued with all 12 matches of both the 2011–12 season and 2012–13 season, and continued into the 2013–14 season for nine games (six group stage games, both legs of the round of 16 and the first leg of the quarter-finals), with the run finally coming to an end in a 2–0 away loss in the quarter-finals second leg against Borussia Dortmund on 8 April 2014.

Manchester United hold the record of consecutive home wins in the Champions League. They have 12 consecutive home wins which was achieved when they defeated Barcelona 1–0 on 29 April 2008. This run was ended with a 0–0 draw against Villarreal on 17 September 2008.

Bayern Munich (2012–13, 2013–14) and Real Madrid (2013–14, 2014–15) hold the record of 10 consecutive wins in the Champions League. Bayern Munich's run started on 2 April 2013 in the 2–0 win against Juventus in the first leg of the quarter final of the 2012–13 season after losing 2–0 against Arsenal three weeks earlier. The run continued in the other three knockout matches and the final of the 2012–13 season. The run continued in the first five group stage matches of the 2013–14 season, but ended with the sixth in a 2-3 home defeat against Manchester City on 10 December 2013. Real Madrid's run started on 23 April 2014 in the 1-0 win against Bayern Munich in the first leg of semi final of the 2013-14 season after losing 2-0 against Borussia Dortmund 2 weeks earlier in the second leg of the quarter final. The run continued in the other leg of the semi final, the final against Atlético de Madrid, the six group stage matches of the 2014-15 season, and the first leg of round of 16 of the 2014-15 season, against Schalke 04.

This broke the previous record of 20 consecutive games unbeaten by Ajax, which began with a 0–0 home draw against F.C. Porto in the second leg of the first round in 1985–86, and after an eight-year hiatus from the competition resumed through a 2–0 home win against Milan in their opening group stage game in 1994–95 and ended with a 0–1 home loss to Panathinaikos in the first leg of the semi-final in 1995–96.

The third longest run is 19 by Bayern Munich, which began with a 1–0 home win against Arsenal on matchday six of the second group stage in 2000–01, and ended with a 0–2 away loss to Real Madrid in the second leg of the quarter-finals in 2001–02.

José Águas and Rui Águas are the only father and son who were top scorers in the tournament. José Águas won the award in 1960–61 and Rui Águas was joint top scorer in the 1987–88 season. Both players managed this feat while playing for the same club, Benfica.

Only three players scored two hat-tricks in a single Champions League season: Lionel Messi (3+5 goals) and Mario Gomez (3+4 goals), both in the 2011–12 season and also Luiz Adriano, who scored hat-tricks in two consecutive games (5+3 goals) in the 2014-15 season.

The first goal of the tournament was scored by Sporting CP player João Baptista Martins after 14 minutes in a 3–3 draw against Partizan on 4 September 1955, in the first match ever played in the competition and Nigerian Daniel Amokachi scoring the first champions league goal after his goal secured a 1–0 win for Club Brugge in the opening match in the group stage against CSKA Moscow.

Hans-Jörg Butt has done so three times with three different clubs, all with penalties, and all against Juventus:

For Hamburg in a 4–4 home draw on Wednesday 13 September 2000 in a group stage match

For Leverkusen in a 3–1 home win on Tuesday 12 March 2002 in a second group stage match

The equaliser for Bayern Munich on Tuesday 8 December 2009 in a group stage match in Turin which Bayern had to win to qualify for the next stage, and went on to win 4–1.

Sinan Bolat is the only goalkeeper to score a goal in open play: his last-minute (90+5) equalizer for Standard Liège against AZ on 9 December 2009, securing the third place in Group H, led his team to the Europa League.